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Subject: Re: max number of spawn processes
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:31:23PM -0700, Bob Bae wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am using the lastest cygwin snapshot 20070810 source base.  I cannot
>spawn more than 256 processes.  I tried changing CHILD_MAX and
>OPEN_MAX to increase the limit but the same limit applies in my test
>programs.
>
>Is there a way to increase the limit?

No, sorry.  It's hard coded at 256.

cgf

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